. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . eirsides as long as they live. A true friend is oneof the greatest blessings in life; therefore to bemistaken or disappointed of such enjoyment,when we hope to be in full possession of it,must be as great a mortification. So that wecannot be too nice and scrupulous in our choiceof those who are to be our companions for life:for they must have but a poor shallow notionof friendship, who intend to take it, like a lease,for a term of years only. In a word, the doc-trine which this fable speaks, is to prepare usagainst
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . eirsides as long as they live. A true friend is oneof the greatest blessings in life; therefore to bemistaken or disappointed of such enjoyment,when we hope to be in full possession of it,must be as great a mortification. So that wecannot be too nice and scrupulous in our choiceof those who are to be our companions for life:for they must have but a poor shallow notionof friendship, who intend to take it, like a lease,for a term of years only. In a word, the doc-trine which this fable speaks, is to prepare usagainst being injured or deceived by a rashcombination of any sort. The manners of theman we desire for a friend, of the woman welike for a wife, of the person with whom wewould jointly manage and concert measures forthe advancement of our temporal interest,should be narrowly and cautiously inspected,before we embark with them in the same ves-sel, lest we should alter our mind when it is toolate, and think of regaining the shore after wehave launched out of our depth. FABLE XLI. 85. THE HARES AND FROGS IN A STORM. U PON a great storm of wind that blew among thetrees and bushes, and made a rusthng with theleaves, the Hares (in a certain park where therehappened to be plenty of them) were so terribly-frighted, that they ran like mad all over the place,resolving to seek out some retreat of more security,or to end their unhappy days by doing violence tothemselves. Witli this resolution they found anoutlet where a pale had been broken down, and,bolting forth upon an adjoining common, had notrun far before their course was stopped by that ofa gentle brook which glided acioss the way they in-tended to take. This was so grievous a disappoint-ment, that they were not able to bear it; and theydetermined rather to throw themselves headlonginto the water, let what would become of it, thanlead a life so full of dangers and crosses. But,upon their coming to the brink of the river, a par-cel of Frog
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